The No. 1 movie at the box office is a thinly veiled fantasy about the assassination of Donald Trump. (Note: This column contains spoilers.)
Civil War, written and directed by Alex Garland, is not as complex, nuanced, or apolitical as critics in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Variety, and New Yorker suggest.
The best art depicts and predicts life. Tupac created art that called for violence. Garland’s art calls for violence against Trump.
The point of Garland’s film is simple. Killing Trump is the most efficient and wisest way to end America’s political chaos.
I read the reviews. They all managed to avoid addressing the film’s obvious message. They talked about how the film reflects the country’s simmering political divisions and a not-too-distant future in which January 6th-style “rebels” spark a bloody and chaotic civil war. The story continues.
Reviews waste a lot of time pretending that the battlefield photographer played by actress Kirsten Dunst is the equivalent of Marlon Brando’s portrait of a mafia don in The Godfather. Alternatively, critics praise Garland’s masterful job crafting a story that avoids choosing political sides.
All reviews are lies. Dunst’s character is uninteresting and lifeless. And Garland will definitely choose a side. To use left-wing parlance, “Civil War” is a dog whistle for Trump haters. The intent of this movie is to inspire someone or some force to kill Donald Trump.
Spoiler alert: The film ends with a black female soldier standing over a fictional U.S. president who refuses to step down. A female soldier shot and killed the president.
This soldier represented Fani Willis, Letitia James, Kamala Harris, and all the Democratic “female kings” willing to do whatever it takes to stop Trump.
I sat inside the theater and was shocked. I was shocked that a movie like this could be made. Shockingly, the film dominated the weekend box office, grossing $25 million, beating out the second-highest grossing film in America by $10 million. I’m shocked that supposed journalists were able to review this movie without acknowledging that it’s Trump’s deranged manifesto. I’m shocked this movie didn’t cause more outrage. I was shocked at how stupid and incoherent the script was.
But I was reminded of what has been done to art over the past 40 years. The movie follows the path of rap music. Good beats and a decent story hide a lack of talent. With excellent camera work and a decent story, The Shape of Water won her 2017 Academy Award.
At the time, I thought The Shape of Water was the stupidest movie I’d ever watched from start to finish (my date wouldn’t let me go home). “Civil War” is now at the top of my list.
Critics treat “Civil War” like a rap diss song. Garland is Tupac Shakur, and “Civil War” is the director’s version of Tupac’s infamous diss track “Hit ‘Em Up,” attacking rivals Notorious B.I.G. and Puff Daddy. We know how rap feuds end. Tupac and Biggie both died in a hail of gunfire.
For those unfamiliar with 1990s gangsta rap music, here’s the chorus of “Hit ‘Em Up.”
When you see Tupac, pick up the Glock.
If you see Tupac, please call the police.
who shot me?
But that wasn’t the end for you punks.
Now you are about to feel the wrath of the threat.
I hit them.
The best art depicts and predicts life. Tupac created art that called for violence.
Garland’s art calls for violence against Trump. In Garland’s film, everything that the media has condemned as President Trump’s alleged act of encouraging his supporters to breach the Capitol on the afternoon of January 6, 2021 takes place over the course of 109 minutes. There is.
Of course, Trump supporters are portrayed as savages and racists. An early scene shows a group of well-meaning journalists engaging with three stereotypical rednecks at a gas station. The rednecks tie up the two marauders, bleed them, and hang them from the ceiling. One of the countrymen wears a cross around his neck. he is a christian
Later in the film, another “Christian nationalist” shoots and kills two Asian journalists on the charge of being foreigners. Christian nationalists are filling large cemeteries with corpses. A scene from the Holocaust. The point is clear. The America First movement is racist and anti-Semitic.
The movie is embarrassing. If the film continues to do well at the box office, it will speak volumes about how effective academia and corporate media have been in demonizing ordinary Americans and Donald Trump.
The fact that this film was made, released, and not removed from theaters shows how eager the establishment was to assassinate Trump.
